2024年5月16日 · Oral-motor skills are the abilities required to use and coordinate the muscles of the mouth, including the lips, tongue, cheeks, jaw, and palate. These skills are fundamental not just for speech but also for a variety of daily activities such as …

2024年5月22日 · Oral motor exercises are specialized activities designed to strengthen and coordinate the muscles in the mouth, such as the lips, tongue, and jaw. These exercises are crucial for improving speech clarity and the ability to eat and drink safely.

EXERCISES FOR THE TONGUE, LIPS, AND JAW. These exercises are designed to increase the range of movement in your tongue, lips, and jaw, which will help your speech and/or swallow functioning. When doing these exercises, it is important to move the designated area as far as you can in each direction until you feel the muscles stretch.

Oral motor skills refer to the movements of muscles of the jaw, tongue, mouth, and lips. The facial muscles' tone, strength, and motion coordination empower your baby to move the oral structures that help in suckling, chewing, biting, facial expressions, and speech. [1]

2012年10月16日 · Oral motor therapy works on the oral skills necessary for proper speech and feeding development. These skills include: awareness, strength, coordination, movement, and endurance of the lips, cheeks, tongue, and jaw. The activities below are an easy way to work on these skills. Incorporate them into your daily routine whenever you have time.

2023年11月14日 · Enhance communication skills with targeted lip exercises. Discover techniques for improved articulation and oral motor skills.

2024年9月13日 · Typical development of oral motor skills is an important consideration when it comes to self-feeding and movements of the mouth, tongue, and lips in tolerating new foods or textures in feeding. Specific reasons for incorporating oral motor exercises into a therapy program may include issues with the following movements:

Practice these exercises 3 times per day. RANGE OF MOTION: Stick your tongue out as far as you can. Hold your tongue steady and straight for 5 seconds. Relax and Repeat 5 times. Pull back your tongue as far as it will go. Imagine you are trying to touch the back of your tongue to the roof of your mouth (as if making a /k/ sound).

2021年10月7日 · The tongue is made up of 8 different muscles, classified as intrinsic and extrinsic. The tongue must work properly in cooperation with the lips, teeth, and jaw to properly and clearly execute speech sounds. In some cases, inadequate strength and placement of the tongue are due to an oral-motor disorder.